Rainforest Foundation

The Rainforest Foundation was founded in 1989 by Sting and Trudie Styler and "was one of the first organizations to focus on the vital link between preserving rainforests and supporting the rights of indigenous and traditional peoples who call the rainforests home and have protected them for millennia. The "rights-based forestry" approach sets the nature of the Rainforest Foundations' work apart from most other rainforest and environmental organizations."


 * Suzanne Pelletier - Executive Director

Directors
Accessed November 2009:


 * S.Todd Crider, Esq. Chair - Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP;
 * John W. Copeland - Executive Director, Private Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley
 * Ivan Gallegos Rivas - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
 * Heloisa Griggs - Counsel to Senator Richard Durbin on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
 * Veronique Pittman - Trustee, Global Goods Partners; Advisory board member, Sustainable Amazon Partnership (SAP), Root Capital
 * Jessica Serafin - Controller, StormHarbour Partners LP
 * Jean La Rose - Programme Administrator, Amerindian Peoples Association, Guyana

Staff

 * Lene Oestergaard - Executive Director
 * Molly Byrnes -Development and Communications Associate
 * Gina Ghertner -Program Associate
 * Athos Gontijo -Administrative & Finance Advisor
 * Christine Halvorson -Program Director
 * Michele Petri -Development Coordinator

Directors

 * S. James Anaya, Chair - James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, author of Indigenous Peoples in International Law
 * S. Todd Crider, Esq. - Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP;
 * Irma V. Gonzalez - Director of Development, Proteus Fund
 * Heloisa Griggs - Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
 * Jessica Serafin - Associate, Goldman Sachs
 * Jean La Rose - Programme Administrator, Amerindian Peoples Association, Guyana

Contact

 * Web: http://www.rainforestfoundation.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Larry Cox - Former Executive Director
 * Joao Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco
 * Rainforest Foundation UK
 * Neal Rogin